tabernacle

1. Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.

2. The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.

   Tabernakel, Stiftshütte, Mischkan

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3. (broadly)The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).

4. Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.

5. A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.

   Laubhütte, Sukka

6. A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.

   Tabernakel

7. A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.

   табернакляtabernaklja

   (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

8. (broadly)Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.

   the Mormon temple

9. (figuratively)Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.

10. A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.

1. The tabernacle was the predecessor of the Temple.

   deDas Offenbarungszelt war der Vorgänger des Tempels.

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2. As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

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